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Building a basic Jamstack webmail client with Vue 3

Vue 3 is going to be released soon and I wanted to see how easy it is to create the simples possible useful application with it. It turns out it's pretty easy with vue-cli and serverless tools! Here I share my findings.

Automate database backups with AWS Fargate, S3 and CDK

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

Setup free WHOIS monitoring to avoid unwanted domain expirations with Serverless on AWS

A few days ago I forgot to renew one of my registered Internet domains which I believed was set to auto-renew and received a few alerts when affected services started to fail. I hence took the chance to setup a simple and free monitoring solution to avoid incurring again in this same problem once and for all. Powered by AWS CDK, Python and WhoisXML

Micro Blog

New blog post:

#serverless #jamstack #vue #mail #frontend

https://a.l3x.in/blog/serverless-web-client-with-vue-cli/

"And that girl with no name, over there in Braavos."

Oh boy, only the gods know how much I'm looking forward news about that "no one" over there.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2020/08/15/back-in-westeros/

New blog post:

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

https://a.l3x.in/blog/mongodb-backups-with-aws-cdk/

Cercle's YouTube channel is a pot of gold

N'to live @ Tour Saint-Jacques in Paris

https://youtu.be/LL0b2ZKEJoY